Improvement in needle-wrappers



UNITED STATES PATENT EEioE.

JAMES PITZLER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN NEEDLE-WRAPPERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 117,324, dated July 25, 1871.

P To all whom it may concern: to be stuck. A piece of cloth, silk, or other fab- Be it known that I, J AMES PITZLER, of the city of New York, in `the county and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Needle-Wrappers, of which the following is a specifi cation:

rEhis invention relates to an improved inode of lfastening to needle-holders or to needle-wrap- .pers the strip of cloth, silk, or other fabric into which areto be stuck the needles ,and it consists of the needle-holder or needle-wrapper being made with cuts or slits crosswise or at right angles with the direction in which the needles are to be stuck thereon, and passing both ends A of the strip of cloth, silk, or other fabric through said slits, whereby the fabric is thrown forward and presents a perfect cushion for sticking the needles.

In another application (A) I have described the inode of making an improved needle-wrapper or package in which there is a needle-holder. I propose here to state how the cloth or other fabric is fastened to such a needle-holder, dispensing with paste, cement, rivets, clamps, &c., and

Ienabling the manufacturer to make the said Aholder of tin-foil if thought fit.

Figure l is a front view of a sheet of paper or tin-foil, cut, ready to make my improved needleholder. Fig. 2 is the saine seen from the side. Fig. 3 is the needle-holder finished. Fig. 4 is a front view and Fig. 5 a side view of a modication of my inode of fastening the needle-cloth to the tin-foil or paper, and Figs. 6 and 7 are similar figures of another modification thereof.

To make my improved needle-holder a piece of paper or tin-foil is cut three times wider than the desired width for the finished holder and of the proper length therefor, and the top is out in any desired shape to make a iinish on the flap. Two or more slits, C G", are now cut in the central part A crosswise to the length thereof, and of the proper length to correspond to the width of the strip of fabric upon which the needles are ric, B, is passed or woven in through the slits C G', passing in front of the part between two slits, and having its two ends eXtendin g top and bottom behind, as seen in Fig. 2. The two iaps A and A are folded back and doubled over one another, so that the holder will be three thicknesses and have the appearance seen in Fig. 3.

The advantage of this mode of securin g the cloth B to the needle-holder or wrapper will be better understood by inspecting Figs. 2, 5, and 7, where it plainly shows how the cloth, in passing through the crosswise slits, is bulged forward, and presents the proper shape for the needles being stuck therein. rlhe strip of cloth may be of the full width of the needle-holder, and the two ends, top and bottom, need not be doubled under, but may be left flat, which makes the holder all of the same thickness-a decided advantage for packing' or for sliding into an outer wrapper or cae-e. In the case of Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7 where the cloth is made to pass forward twice or three times, the needle, by being stuck therein, effect ually fastens itself and the cloth to the wrapper A in a neat and solid manner.

I do not claim having originated the idea of fastening the cloth upon which needles are stuck to a needle-holder without the use of paste, rivets, clamps, Ste., as I know this has already been done; but

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

The needle-holder A, having the cloth or other fabrics B secured thereto by said cloth being passed through slits cut crosswise to the length of the needles, which are stuck upon said cloth, substantially as set forth.

JAMES lPITZLER.

Witnesses:

W. GENGEMBRE HUBERT, GEo. R. JAQUEs. 

